Things people do for money are unimaginable i must say, three people have been arrested with the intent to sell off babies given birth to by teenage girls who are being kept for the sole purpose.
The baby factory" is the second to be discovered in the south-east of the country in a week.
The latest case was unearthed by police during a raid on a house in Enugu, two men and a woman are believed to have been using the six girls, all aged under 17, in a child trafficking ring.
Police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu told AFP news agency that the girls had been "lured into the house with a promise of some money" after delivering a child.
According to the Daily Post, they were smuggled out of their homes and going to be held until they gave birth.
This is coming just days after police operatives freed 17 pregnant teenage girls and 11 small children from a home in Umuaka.
Some of the girls were aged as young as 14 and said that they had been impregnated by a 23-year old man who is now in custody.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation say that human trafficking is the third most common crime in Nigeria after fraud and drug trafficking.
According to girls freed in 2011, they had been offered to sell their babies for around £120 each.
From Daily Post
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